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Whenever someone asserts that a scientific question is “settled,” they tell me immediately that they don’t understand the first thing about science. Science is neversettled. Dr David Deming

Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of the science of climate change is the lack of any real substance in attempts to justify the hypothesis ~Professor Stewart Franks

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - See more at: http://thepeoplescube.com/lenin/lenin-s-own-20-monster-quotes-t185.html#sthash.aTrSI3tG.dpuf

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - See more at: http://thepeoplescube.com/lenin/lenin-s-own-20-monster-quotes-t185.html#sthash.aTrSI3tG.dpuf

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - See more at: http://thepeoplescube.com/lenin/lenin-s-own-20-monster-quotes-t185.html#sthash.aTrSI3tG.dpuf

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Union Leader backs job loss Carbon Dioxide tax.

Paul Howes turns his backon Union members.

Paul Howes once said that he would withdraw support for the carbon dioxide tax if
only one job was lost. (link)

The
high-profile head of Australia's biggest manufacturing union has warned it will
withdraw support for the Federal Government's carbon tax if "a single
job" is lost under the scheme.

Australian Workers
Union national secretary Paul Howes has warned the Government that "if one
job is gone, our support [for the carbon tax] is gone".

But you reneged, didn’t you Paul? Did a political future
become more important to you that the jobs of union members?

Despite protestation from the Government and the brown-nosing elements of the main stream media (MSM), the carbon (dioxide) tax is hitting many businesses.

An official Queensland Government site lists the industries
expected to pass on costs of the carbon dioxide tax: (link)

Energy
(electricity and gas, especially if from fossil fuels)

Water (depending on your provider's carbon output)

Waste (disposal to landfill)

Transport (air, heavy construction and transport)

Construction materials (cement, steel, aluminium, glass)

Industrial chemicals (refrigerants, fire retardants)

Air travel

· Many agriculture,
grower and forestry businesses consume high levels of energy to meet irrigation
and processing requirements and may be exposed to significant cost increases.

The Impost on the Waste Industry has resulted in illegal dumping. Some examples:

Albury-Wodonga:The illegal dumping of household rubbish in the Wodonga area has dramatically increased and the Wodonga council says offenders are blaming their actions on the carbon tax.

The council has predicted illegal dumping will cost it about $10,000 this financial year, up from $3,000 the previous year. (link)

Sunshine Coast:SUNSHINE Coast Council's decision to increase tip fees to compensate for the carbon tax will lead to increased levels of illegal dumping, a leading anti-rubbish campaigner has warnedIn a damning letter to councillors, Tewantin resident Joe Jurisevic described the recent price increases as "short-sighted and reactionary".He warned that the fee increases would ensure the region faced a continuing problem with illegal dumping. (link)

Townsville: ILLEGAL dumping complaints have doubled since tip fees increased earlier this year forcing the council to install mobile CCTV cameras at rubbish hot spots and call on residents to dob in dumpers.Townsville City Council received an almost 100 per cent increase in the number of complaints on the issue since July, compared with the first six months of the year. (link)

The Alumina Refining Industry has already said that the carbon tax could cost 250 jobs: (link)

THE
Australian chairman of aluminium giant Rusal has bluntly urged Julia Gillard to
suspend the introduction of the carbon tax in the absence of comparable
international schemes, warning that it will push alumina refining to China and
drive up global emissions.

John
Hannagan told The Australian yesterday the carbon tax would cost Queensland
Alumina Ltd, in which Rusal has a 20 per cent stake, about $20 million in the
first year of the operation of the carbon tax. This would be the equivalent of
forgoing about 150 jobs.

Over five
years, he said, the company faced an impost of about $30m, or the equivalent of
250 jobs.

Another Industry that will be hard-hit is the Travel Industry.. Travel Weekly reveals: (link)

The carbon
tax will hit the accommodation industry with costs of almost $115 million in
its first year of operation, a new report has revealed.

The AEC
Group research, commissioned by Tourism Accommodation Australia (TAA), showed
the levy, implemented in July, will also see the sector's profitability shrink
by up to 12% over the same period.

AUSTRALIA'S
struggling tourism sector has warned the carbon tax will cost hotels and motels
$115 million in its first year and slash profits by up to 12 per cent.

The
nation's biggest manufacturing firms have also called on the Federal Government
to scrap the climate-change scheme, saying it will "disadvantage"
local companies seeking to compete on world markets.

As the
Government defended the impact of the carbon tax on manufacturing, Origin Energy
boss Grant King said that up to 30 per cent of small and medium sized
enterprises' electricity bills stemmed from carbon pricing and other green
schemes.